TY  - GEN
AU  - Carpo Mario
TI  - Architecture in the age of printing : orality, writing, typography and printed images in the history of architectural theory
SN  - 9780262032889
U1  - 720.1 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - MIT press
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface to the English Edition  vii
1.Prologue: Architectural culture and technological context      1
2. Vitruvius, text and image   16
3. Architectural knowledge in the Middle Ages: Orality and memory versus script and image 23
I. Rules Without Models        23
II.Models without Images      36
4. Architectural drawing in the age of its mechanical reproduction   42
I. Serlio         42
II. Rome in the 1540s      56
III. Paris in the 1540s       71
5. Geneva           79
I. Triumpth and Censorship of the Printed Book    79
II. North and South : Books versus Images, Images without Books, Images in Books          81
III. Illustrated Books and Architectural Treatises in Geneva        88
IV. Serlio’s Orders, Vitruvianism and the Protestant World      96
6. Decline and fall of typographic architecture       103
I. From Shute to Vignola      103
II. From Gesner to Possevino           109
7. The turning point of 1450: Abstract rules versus standardized components in Albertian theory       119
I. Alberti    119
II. Francesco di Giorgio  124
III. Filarete      131
Notes  141
Bibliography of Frequently Cited Works      224
Name Index      237

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